[HPforGrownups] Re: Number of Students

[Amanda Lewanski]

No: HPFGUIDX 8135

Aberforth's Goat wrote:

> Hmmmm. What if HWMNBM heard about Trewlany's first prediction and pulled a
> king Herod on Harry's generation of baby wizards? Ron and the other
> full-blooded wizards in his age group are the survivors. Thus, Harry's year
> is about a forth the size of all the other years. And presumably Harry
> hasn't noticed yet ...

Oh, excellent thought! A purpose, albeit twisted, behind the great numbers of
killings. Has anyone in the books ever said *why* Voldemort was murdering? It
sounded like he kind of was rampaging, and usually there's a reason.....and I've
always suggested that each year's classes at Hogwarts are not "X number of
students" but "all the students who qualify," which makes sense according to how
the students are selected, and would make it almost certain that the size of
class differed from year to year.

So Harry's class is small, perhaps unusually so, and the reason is that some of
the population their age was murdered. I wonder, did the Muggles that Voldemort
killed have past wizarding progeny?

--Amanda